The antioxidant response element. The characteristics of ARE sequences across human and rodent genes, and Nrf2-binding profiles, have been assessed using bioinformatics. (A) The ARE consensus sequence as usually reported in the literature on the basis of mutation analyses of gene reporter plasmids based primarily on rat, mouse, and human GST and NQO1 genes. (B and C) The positional matrices for the human and murine ARE sequences, Jasper IDs MA0150.1 and MA0150.2, respectively, which have been generated by the frequency at which these sites have been found experimentally to be occupied by Nrf2.